Navigational Entanglements

One of the monsters that roam the spaceways has escaped from that space beyond the stars. Viê·t Nhi is assigned to the investigatory mission, along with representatives from the other mercantile clans. But the mission’s leader is an incompetent jerk, the obviously flawed representatives already hate each other, and it’s clear to the observant but secretive loner Nhi that the mission is intended to fail. When it succeeds anyway, Nhi and her frenemy Ha·c Cúc manage to work together long enough to learn who is really responsible for a murder plot on a massive scale—and whether it will be worth the price they will both pay to even attempt to stop it. Fans of de Bodard’s Hugo Award–winning “Xuya Universe” series will find similarities in this standalone novel, and for those curious about Xuya and looking for a way in, this book includes many of the elements that make that series so compelling, but in a shorter, self-contained work.